Final

1.) Give a very specific outline of the ETHICS of Gandhi as presentedin his "autobiography" chapters 1-50 and the final last pages.Unlike a biography that only outlines his life, the "autobiography"allows you to go into his head and experience his world view. Focuson his world view. Articulate his ethics as "he sees them." Answerwhat does he mean by "experiments with Truth?" What arehis "specific" personal ethical struggles and life challenges? Whatpersonal problems does he face and how does he solve them? Giveexamples. Detail his ethical position. And, finally, why do youthink Gandhi is considered by many to be a moral hero? Do you thinkthat Gandhi's life can serve as an inspiration for us today. ApplyGandhi's ethics to your individual life AND to the world at large.(Hint: I need to see in this essay that you completed the assignedreading; this most likely will be a longer essay and so worth a bitmore). If you did not read the AUTOBIOGRAPHY then skip this questionand write I DO NOT KNOW. Do NOT use an outside source on the life ofGandhi to answer this question (no credit)....I am trying todecipher if you read the assigned book and understood his ethicalstruggles from his own perspective.

Gandhi was very political and a spiritual leader in India. He was a prisoner at the time of civil independence; his family was founder of India independence. He even has his own holiday as the international day of non violence. Gandhi was a strong believer of non violence they refer him to a freedom fight such as Martin Luther King, Jr.
Gandhi goes by a few principles of his ethic’s they are vegetarianism, truth, brahmacharya, simplicity, faith and non violence. Gandhi dedicated life to the wider purpose of discovering Satya. Gandhi tried to achieve this by learning from his own mistakes, like most people do. Vegetarianism is basically that he doesn’t eat meat. Simplicity is he believe that a person involved in social service should lead a simple live in that he it could lead to Branhmacharya. Brahmacharys is Gandhi’s was to come close with god he used this after his father passed away. Brahmacharys is a spiritual and practical purity; in spite of this Gandhi has been sharing his bed with young women when I found rather strange.
Gandhi has drawn most of his ethics and most faith from Hinduism. Hindu are generally is a lay back religion, they believe that abortion is ok and as long as it wont harm the mother or father if you are going to have a baby that when it arrives you will not be able to give the baby the life it deserves that you don’t have the baby at all which is why they probably don’t believe in birth control. Hinduism is non violence religion they don’t believe in killing and violence. One thing I found funny they don’t believe in donating their organ but they are for the people and not harming anyone.
Although he believes that all religions are equal but he rejected them in efforts to convert him to a different faith. As a rule of Gandhi he was opposed to the concept of partition; this contradicted his vision of religious unity. He wrote the demand for Pakistan which is Islam stands for unity and the brotherhood of mankind. Not for disrupting the oneness of the family of humans.
Today I still really don’t get Gandhi I like how he is about non violence but I cannot see myself thinking as he does and worshiping him, but like they say in their eyes of the believes of Gandhi they believer for him to be like Martin Luther King, Jr which we all look up to very much because he made a great changes for our world today.
4. Discuss the ethical contributions of Einstein as presented in theweb link onthe course website. As you did with Gandhi, explain whydo you think Einstein is considered by many to be a moral hero? Whatdo you most admire about him? Do you think that Einstein's life canserve as an inspiration for us today. Apply Einstein's ethics toyour individual life AND to the world at large.
Einstein I would have to say is more of a hero then Gandhi, he seemed like a family man and a nice guy. I mostly go that from looking at his clips he was with family around a table. When reading the article it talked about how he had hobbies such as sailing his sailboat, he was always up for a good joke, all around a pretty swell man.
Einstein had dealt with the grand struggle over totalitarianism and democracy, he found for human rights. He was fighting for it all about because of him he has really made an impact on our world today. They call him the man of the 20th century.
A lot of people turned on Einstein because of the nuclear weapon he helped to produced. This is because the Germens turn that against us and Einstein was there to take them blame. He said had he had know this was going to happen he would have never had done so. I still think he was a good man and I like him more then I do Gandhi.
Gandhi was against Einstein in that he didn’t like war or violence itself but then again either did Einstein, Gandhi was there to look down on Einstein when the whole nuclear weapon broke lose because he such a believer in non violence world. They were both brought up in family, although I still like Einstein more then Gandhi I don’t know all the religious thing behind Hinduism and they way he thinks.

5. What is the "utilitarian argument for animal rights" (define) aspresented by Singer? When discussing Singer outline his argument foranimal rights drawing specifically from the assigned reading (hint:you will need to mention and define speciesism and other importantideas and examples from the Singer reading and VIDEO, etc. I willlook for VIDEO material in your essay (required). Do not just write avague response but draw key ideas from the material. Again, for thefinal VIDEO details (when applicable) are important.

Singer I found is a very interesting man, his main ethics is he believes everyone should be treated equal, he is a strong believer in animal right. He doesn’t think it is necessary to harm anyone or thing unless it is going to be benefited from in the long run. From Singers utilitarian perspective he doesn’t believe in suffering of humans or animals he would like to see it reduced. This is why he goes by the greatest number for the greatest good.
Singer believes we should eliminate and or avoid specisism because this is allowing their species take priority of other species for example how we eat animals and they suffer to let us be fulfilled. He believer we need to stop killing animals. He also believes it is very wrong to experiment on animals that is causing them to suffer and harming animals.
In the Lane neuron- ethical argument simply state that eating meat is wrong and vegetarianism is the way to go to avoid harming animals. Singer believes that we should not be influenced by our cultures to eat meet or by others he doesn’t want us harming and killing animals and animals have a central nervous system and they can feel pain; this is not fair to the animals. After reading on Singers ethics I am totally for the animals and always have been but I just don’t think I can not eat meat I know it is hurting the animals but I was raised on it and would way to hard to stop eating meat.
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7. How does Peter Singer view euthanasia? Describe his reasoningprocess. Do you agree? Justify philosophically (explain in depth).(note: there are varying types of euthanasia so make sure to explaineach and his position on each one of these and your position on eachof these as well.) And also, at the end of this essay, what do youthink Singer would say about the past case dealing with TerriSchiavo (do a google.com search to find details on the case
Singer stance on euthanasia and poverty I found interesting some things I agree on and others I do not. When he speaks about Euthanasia he breaks it into three different parts which are Voluntary, involuntary, and non voluntary. Voluntary is where a person kills themselves on purpose mostly because they are terminally ill and they commit suicide to stop from suffering. Singer mentions the Dr. Jack Kevorkian “The suicide machine” who help many people by using lethal injections in prison. Personally I don’t think that is right the only time I feel someone should use voluntary is if they are slowing dying and they are suffering should they kill themselves.
There is involuntary which where your are able to consent but you don’t say so and they kill you anyways because they know you are suffering and you are going to dies anyways. This one doesn’t quite make any sense to me but maybe I am reading this incorrectly because this almost sound more like Voluntary and more on an accident basis
The third one is non voluntary which is where you are not able to consent for your death but they know you are suffering and or is going to die for example if you have been an accident and or is a baby and cannot communicate. Most Utilitarianism such as Singer believes there are not extrinsic reasons for killing and baby alive if they are suffering they believe the child should be helped to death.
I honestly think that Euthanasia should be ok their there is no hope for that person and they are going to suffer for the rest of their life. I feel it is their choice to choose weather or not they want to take their life or not. Because I know I would never want to suffer a lot of people who do and are terminally ill just want to be killed; such as many choose to do so. But I do not think that should be considered suicide and if that is I hope that god forgives them because they are suffering and that is not fair.
8.) Outline the article on CLONING, discussing what it is, how isworks and, MOST IMPORTANTLY, the ethical (and political andreligious) issues involved. Next discuss the 25 minute VIDEO on thistopic. Having been well informed about cloning now, what is yourethical position here? Explain in depth yourstance on this topic. Cloning was not introduced until the 1970’s the reason cloning was brought to everyone attention was the cloning of Dolly the sheep it had taken more then 227 takes before Dolly was created. Although it is know the human cloning is way more complicated the cloning animals or plants. The human cloning simply is much more difficult because human cloning would require taking somatic cell, as opposed to reproductive cell such as an egg or sperm cell, from a person removing its nucleus. The DNA of the somatic cell is transferred to an enucleated egg. But is not possible because certain somatic cells are turned off; at this point is not able to turn them back on.

From a religious point of you the Roman Catholics believe it is evil to used human cloning as well as southern baptism they support the Roman Catholics point of view. In the Jewish religion they fear human cloning because they feel it might harm the family by such relationships and roles within the family.

From an ethical point of view from the possibility of human cloning society had not been able to have a clear view because the morality of human cloning. In our society we dived up by churches and state, law and governing, human cloning will be reflecting the ethical position that are not based on any god of religious. Such as possible physical harm to the embryo and or harm to the child. They also fear possible social harm for example over time human cloning might become a preferred practice.

Personally I do not think human cloning is a good ideal. Because are world would be coming to an end people wont be having babies they will just clone their children instead of reproducing again. I just do not think it is right and is morally wrong because we would more then likely use them to experiment on and this could lead to killing many people in the long run.
9) Do the same for STEM CELL RESEARCH. Utilizing the online articlnd VIDEO, discuss what it is, how it works, and, MOST IMPORTANTLY,the ethical (and political and religious) issues involved. Make sureto discuss the 29 minute VIDEO in your essay! (required) Having beenwell informed about stem cell research, what is your ethicalposition here? Explain in depth your position on this topic. When I read up on stem cell research I was for it even though I wasn’t quite sure what a stem cell was or what is endured. I found out that a stem cell they are cells found in most multi cellular organism. There are two types of stem cells which is embryonic stem cell which is the one that the conservatory is all about. The embryonic stem cell that are found in blastocysts; the adult stem cells are found in adult cells.
There is major conservatory over stem cell research if it is really ethical is the main argument. The controversy is basically over human embryonic stem cell research which emanates from the techniques used in the creation and usage of stem cell. With technology and the way it is today, when you’re starting and stem cell line it requires the destruction of a human embryo or cloning.
The ethical issues against stem cell research are that you are killing a living organism which is the embryo. Because many are against abortion and are for stem cell research, this is because the embryo is known to be no bigger then a pinhead. This is why George Bush is look down on as a hypocrite because he approve this bill and is totally against abortion.
The moral objection is killing the blastocysts but they say cannot be based of suffering. The ethical issue is that they have a future but eventually can develop and be capable of human suffering, human love, hate, feel and human consciousness. I think this is ethical and morally right because it is know that we can save many people by stem cell research. These stem cells don’t have any feel or live at this part so in my opinion they are not missing out on anything; as humans we have not become attached to the stem cell or living organism yet.
10. Out of everything you studied this term, from the ten ethicaltheorists, to the moral case topics, to the life of Gandhi andEinstein, to evolutionary psychology, what or who had the most impacton your thinking and may have actually impacted your life in someway? Explain in detail...apply to your life and world. I really wantto see that you digested the material you studied and that somehow itaffected your worldview. Articulate who or what influenced you themost and how it did. Offer details.

I would have to say Einstein I really like his article and what they had to say about him. I love how he is for the people. I feel that he has made a big impact on which our society is today having. I mean he found human right, what we would do with out these rights. We have freedom as individual and we have say in our society and allowing us as humans to make a difference ourselves.
I just really think out of evolutionary psychology and Gandhi Einstein really shines as the true hero of our world today. But I am sure a lot of people might disagree but that is because we all are entitled to our own opinion and backgrounds. With out Einstein we may not have the freedom we have today.
Although, people in India and who believe in Hinduism more the likely believe in Gandhi as the true hero and found him more interest. But mainly because I am a American; totally for human right I believe that Einstein is truly a hero and I believe that he has really made a difference in my life I have never given him credit for what he has done because truly I didn’t know until I took this class.